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  • IBM scores WA smart meter deal

    IBM has won a deal with Western Australian energy provider Western Power as a systems integration and project management partner for a smart meter pilot.

  • WA Health issues $4 million Cisco contract

    The Western Australian Department of Health is upgrading its networks and has issued a two-year, $4 million tender for Cisco switches and systems integration services.

  • Nextgen wins $250m regional backbone deal

    Leighton subsidiary Nextgen Networks has pipped Optus for the $250 million deal to roll-out 6000 kilometres of backbone links to regional Australia.

  • Fujitsu scores WA energy deal

    Fujitsu today announced an 18-month deal with WA's largest electricity provider Verve energy to design and implement an energy trading management system.

  • NEHTA to test health ID this year

    The National E-Health and Transition Authority (NEHTA) has today released its strategy for 2009 to 2012, listing priorities and timelines to enable e-health, including developing an "office" model for health identifiers by December.

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    IT: Govt's cost-cutting bitch

    The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.

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  • Are clueless politicians holding IT back?

    The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.

  • How IT is saving Pilbara's Aboriginal languages

    Creating and cataloguing recordings of indigenous languages is a challenging enough technology task, but the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre had some additional barriers to overcome: creaky IT systems, a depleting base of native speakers and the ever-present threat of cyclones.

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Blades of gold -- a virtual migration

    Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines is in the process of moving its IT infrastructure from a fleet of traditional servers to virtual servers running on blade hardware.

  • Who's taking the ITIL bait?

    In an industry known for its hype, it's understandably difficult for many managers to make sense of new trends. But in the case of IT Infrastructure Library, a growing body of success stories confirms this is one trend that you should definitely be on top of.

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  • Telstra boosts Next G reach

    Telstra has unveiled an upgrade to its Next G mobile high-speed data network that it claims has delivered download speeds of up to 2.3Mbps at a range of 200km.

  • Finding "The fastest P4 system in Australia"

    With the Australian launch of the Intel Pentium 4, we decided it would be a good idea to run a competition to find the fastest system in Australia based on the Intel Pentium 4 processor and retailing under AU$7,000.

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